Chapter 34: Mage Tower (3)

Time passed by unknowingly, and it took a full three months to complete the first phase of the Mage Tower project.

The original two-story villa has been transformed into a 35-meter-high tower, the rune array has been built, and the hardening enchantment has been completed.

"System, scan the entire tower."

“Scanning.”

"Scan completed, current tower attributes:
Height: 35.7 meters, diameter: 120 meters, structure: reinforced concrete, enchantment: hardening, elemental land, ancillary buildings: energy pool, ground energy network, botanical garden, laboratory, ecological cultivation room. Magic traps: 12, defensive array: earth element barrier, Muggle dispel, wind spirit illusion.
Guard: Elite Skeleton*35.

Energy reserve: 2/10.

Challenge level: 8. (The challenge level means that only a team of adventurers with a professional level of 8 can have a chance of defeating it.)"

Richard looked at the evaluation given by the system and couldn't help curling his lips. Without the protection of the tower spirit and the golem army, the defense ability of this tower was pitifully low. As long as there was a slightly more reliable adventure team, the attack would be successful.

There was nothing that could be done about it. After all, the Tower Spirit was a legendary magical creation. Richard didn't have the strength to create one at the moment. Moreover, creating a Tower Spirit required a legendary Soul Crystal. This kind of thing was only more common in Hell and the Abyss.

High-quality soul crystals are extremely precious no matter where they are.

Fortunately, there are not many supernatural powers in this world, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the tower for the time being.

Richard has resurrected hundreds of skeletons in this period of time. Among them, those with good soul qualifications have been promoted to elite skeletons. The rest are still ordinary skeletons. Richard plans to use these skeletons as factory workers.

In the Arcane Parliament Alliance, many arcanists use the undead as a large labor force, but because the appearance of the undead can easily cause panic, they have researched a flesh-animation technique.

Put a layer of flesh on the skeletons and let them work. This layer of flesh has no effect on the skeletons, it just makes them look more human.

Richard selected some skeletons, performed the flesh and blood animation technique on them, and then sent these skeletons to work in the factory.

In addition to these skeletons, Richard also began to prepare to create some puppet golems. Although skeletons are useful, their power is still too low to be used as a warning. At the same time, skeletons carry the breath of the dead, and some sensitive areas will be affected.

In the Arcane Parliament Alliance, the development of constructed golems is very prosperous, and the cheapest is still the flesh golem created by the necromancers. This kind of golem uses a large number of corpses and has a very low cost, but no one is willing to use it except the liches.

The orthodox golems from low to high are clay golem, rock golem, iron golem, and the legendary diamond golem, adamantium golem, and mithril golem. There are many other types of high-end golems, such as magic breakers, arcane guards, destroyers, magic constructs, neutron star golems, etc.

These golems are very expensive to build. Generally speaking, having an iron golem army is already very powerful. The standard configuration of the floating city is the iron golem army and the rock golem army.

Richard did not plan to make clay golems or rock golems, but directly made steel golems. Although the Arcane Parliament Alliance had good smelting technology and good steel production, it was far behind the steel production of this era.

Especially the red dragon on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, whose steel production completely crushed the Supreme Arcane Council. A large amount of cheap steel reduced the cost of steel golems by half. Coupled with various convenient materials, Richard had sufficient funds to build a team of steel golems for himself. Even the material of the steel golem could be upgraded to titanium alloy.

Using titanium alloy as the main material, although the price will be many times higher, the strength of the Iron Golem can also be greatly improved. If he could get the unique vibranium in this world or the metal used to forge artifacts in Asgard, Richard even wanted to build several high-level golems such as Demon Breakers and Neutron Star Golems.

Richard estimated that the challenge level of such a constructed golem would most likely reach 30+. Such a high challenge level is equivalent to the demigod level.

While Richard was busy building the Wizard Tower, New York was not at peace. The military had restarted the Super Soldier Project a long time ago and worked with some large groups to research Super Soldiers, hoping to recreate Captain America.

However, this road was not smooth from the beginning. The information of the super soldier serum left behind was missing key parts, and it had never been successful, or had extremely strong side effects.

After seeing a huge amount of dollars invested but no corresponding results, the military's patience was almost at its limit and they kept urging the laboratory to produce results.

Osborne Industries was under great pressure.

Norman wanted to take out the human enhancement potion they invented, but several researchers disagreed. There are still many problems that have not been solved with the human enhancement potion.

A few months ago, Norman obtained a bottle of life potion and a werewolf corpse specimen. After seeing this legendary creature, Norman was greatly surprised. He then extracted the werewolf's cell DNA from the specimen and added it to the human body strengthening potion together with the life potion.

The experiment can be said to be very successful. The strengthening ability of the human body strengthening agent has been greatly improved, which surprised everyone. But then they discovered that the mice injected with the agent became bloodthirsty and could not be controlled at all.

They were not allowed to continue studying how to keep the mice sane.

On the other hand, Norman discovered that although the life potion could enhance vitality, it could not cure their family's genetic disease.

Norman had to place his hope on human body strengthening potions.

In order to obtain more funds and appease shareholders, it began to monetize some biological experiments and recruited some intern researchers from universities to reduce costs.

However, these actions cannot quickly solve the problems of Osborn Industries unless they can develop mature biological agents. As for the traditional arms trade, they have been squeezed by several other arms giants and are almost about to withdraw from this field.

In particular, the most profitable high-end weapons manufacturing is almost completely monopolized by Stark Industries. The products produced by these companies are far inferior to those of Stark Industries.

Osborn Industries spent a lot of money to build a single-soldier weapon set. The military considered this set of equipment to be an expensive toy that was flashy and impractical. If the human body enhancement potion failed, Osborn Industries would most likely go bankrupt.

In order to obtain funds as quickly as possible, Norman even wanted to conceal the data and apply for human clinical trials.

(End of this chapter)